0:00 -Hi, I'm Jeff from Sussex Installations.
0:02 -Today's video is about holes in the door, as they continue.
0:04 -This particular van here is a Ford Connect, so holes in the door, all model vans, just seemingly holes in the door being attacked all over the place, and this is just another model.
0:16 -We've been seeing more and more pictures being emailed to us by customers after break-ins in these Ford Connects in the recent few weeks and months.
0:22 -It does seem to be a vehicle that's on trend, unfortunately, for holes in the door.
0:26 -I guess as other model vans get more secure, then these are perhaps the ones that become weaker, or easier pickings, if that is the case.
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0:49 -Thank you very much.
0:53 -Are we going for it, Danny?
0:55 -We're going for the reveal, you ready?
0:58 -I'm ready.
1:06 -Nice, so this is for the Ford Connect long wheelbase version, where it doesn't have the wheel arch interfering right up here.
1:14 -If you've got the short wheelbase one, then that would need a different product.
1:17 -If you're looking for a side load door shield or security for your Ford Connect or any other van, go to the website, it's www.sussexinstallations.co.uk.
1:29 -So now what we're going to do is we're just going to fit this start to finish, give you a bit of an idea of how difficult it is to fit.
1:34 -If you're thinking about buying it from the website, or from eBay, or from Amazon, and fitting it yourself, take a look here now and watch this.
1:42 -[Music]
1:58 -Installation.
2:05 -[Music]
2:14 -It's really not too bad to fit, after all.
2:16 -A little bit fiddly inside the door, perhaps a little bit here and there with the nuts and bolts, but generally goes on really, really nice.
2:21 -So nice, ideal product.
2:23 -If you want to see a little bit more about how I developed this, and going through the development during the day, then stay watching the video, now we go into the development.
2:30 -Showing you the problem here, customer arriving with his van with a hole in the door, and the solution of us fixing it, so wish me luck.
2:38 -What I'm going to do is I'm going to get on and see what I can do.
2:41 -We've got an area to cover here.
2:42 -We've got, um, just to consider, we're trying to have a look at other pictures we've got from other people who have had attacks on Ford Connects.
2:50 -So we're making a versatile sort of shield that's going to cover the typical type of attacks, and also we want to give it some additional security as well as repairing the damage.
2:58 -There's some folds in the door for me to consider as well.
3:00 -So, going to have to cut a shape, um, going to have to draw and laser a shape that's going to fit this door.
3:06 -They're going to have to get onto the press brake, and going to have to bend and fold the shielding in order to match the contours of this door.
3:14 -I didn't have a Ford Connect spare door here on the premises that I could work on, so this particular development needs to be done in a day.
3:22 -So we need to get on, get this done, get the vehicle out today.
3:27 -But we have the resources, we've got the laser, we've got the press, we've got the CNC machine to cut the gasket, so we've got all the stuff here on site for development purposes, just to do the exact job of that, get this vehicle done, get the product made, and get the vehicle out the door today.
3:44 -Just unbelievable, really, just hole in a van, after hole in a van, after hole in a van.
3:49 -So I'm here checking out the damage.
3:51 -Who, what have we got here, cup of tea, Danny?
3:52 -That's going to help, thank you very much, that's going to be useful to get this, uh, get this job done.
4:01 -Checking out the damage that's on the vehicle, seeing what that looks like, but also trying to see what other damage we know of that's happening on other vans.
4:09 -So I've got pictures on the computer that customers have sent us, or also, like, uh, you know, stuff that I've seen online.
4:16 -Trying to see, trying to make a versatile product that's going to suit for different occasions.
4:23 -So the short wheel base one that you've got, you've got the wheel arch here to consider, which is in the mix.
4:28 -So, it'd be great just to design a shield that will cover this part, that would be suitable for both long wheel base and short wheelbase, but looking at the way the damage is, it just ain't going to work.
4:38 -So it's two different products, you know, we're going to have to do one for one model van, and one for another model van, short wheel base and long wheel base.
4:49 -I'm going to show you some of the differences.
4:50 -If you got short wheel base, like this door here, small gap there, you've got a short wheel base.
4:57 -If you've got a long gap there, you've got the long wheel base Ford Connect.
5:04 -Trying to make the shield big, but looking at the size of the door as well, so, you know, trying to not just put a big huge lump of metal on the door, that's going to look terrible.
5:15 -And also trying to make a versatile shield that's like around this, the, like, the shapes of the van.
5:20 -So I'm looking at, like, the bends here, like this, this is quite flat as the door goes down, and then we get down to this bit, which is bending, which is sticking out.
5:29 -But in all honesty, we don't really need to protect this little part down here, that would be very unlikely for anyone to attack down there.
5:39 -And so I think that I can do something, incorporate some style and some design and a bit of finesse to the shield, make the shield look nice, and incorporate the look of the door, detract from it being just a big lump of metal on the van.
5:50 -And also help it to match the actual shape of the van, to fit nice, all at the same time, so I'm going to put a bit of style to it.
5:57 -So, version five on the go at the moment.
5:59 -With version five, we kind of adapted, I've already got the shape basically as it needs to be, and now I've added in some style to the shield to make it so it's going to look nice on the van.
6:09 -Also added in, like, the hole location, but where we'd be drilling the holes in the bodywork of the van, which eventually we'll put studs on the shield for doing that, but at the moment it's just to test the hole location.
6:20 -Make sure they're right, if they need to be changed then we'll change them and move them, before we go and actually have to make tooling to fit the studs to the shield.
6:28 -So good to test the positions of the holes before we go to all that trouble.
6:31 -Here it is, here the holes.
6:36 -So, version five, take that to the press now, and bend it.
6:43 -Version six is looking good, more or less.
6:45 -It was the same, I just maneuvered, just had to move a couple of the holes, lower hole had to go down slightly, the other hole had to go across.
6:55 -Slight changes, slight design changes, is like couple of millimeters in the middle there.
6:59 -Slight design change at the top to match the angulation with the door.
7:09 -So, that's more or less it, our hole positions are there.
7:12 -Next thing we've got to do is cut a gasket for it.
7:22 -Okay, one gasket.
7:24 -So we're getting there, we're getting in business, right, things already moving along.
7:28 -Here, we've got all our tooling made, um, sorted, ready to go, so we can do the studding, fit the actual studs onto the shields.
7:39 -I've got a production batch of shields here on the laser right now, which are in the brush stainless steel finish, and that's going to look really nice, you'll see that in a few seconds on the video.
7:50 -Might take us an hour or so actually in real life, going to get these shields into the press, going to bend them, going to fold them, then we're going to get the studs on, going to get the shield onto this van, and get the pictures ready so we can make the instruction manual, in case you guys are fitting them yourselves, or if you're buying them from our website, or from Amazon, or from eBay.
8:09 -And, uh, then we're going to get this customer away, get him out of here, so he can go home, get on with his day.
8:14 -We going for it, Danny?
8:15 -We're going for the reveal, you ready?
8:16 -I'm ready.
8:26 -Nice, here we go, finished, from problem to solution, development, production, all in a day.
8:33 -And this customer, I'm sure, is ready to get himself home back off to London, because, um, it's been a long day, he's been here and he's waited.
8:40 -We've made sure he's had a few cups of coffee and all the rest of it, but, um, I'm sure he's ready to get home.
8:44 -I'm really pleased with it, it has gone well, it's matching the contours of the van bodywork nicely.
8:50 -A few bends in that shield, um, some of them quite prominent where you can see following the swage lines of the van, and there's other ones in there which you can barely even notice.
8:59 -Really pleased, I think it's going to be a nice versatile shield.
9:01 -So this is for the Ford Connect long wheelbase version, where it doesn't have the wheel arch interfering right up here.
9:09 -If you've got the short wheelbase one, then that would need a different product.
9:14 -If you're looking for a side load door shield or security for your Ford Connect or any other van, go to the website, it's www.sussexinstallations.co.uk.
9:24 -Thanks for watching, don't forget to subscribe to the YouTube channel, please do give us a like for the video.
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